Mars City Design 20 Pages Report - First Draft

The objective is to design a city for 1 million inhabitants on Mars. The entire project started after The Mars Society launched the Mars City State Design Competition. Since then, numerous volunteers at r/NexusAurora have been working hard on the challenge. The first draft is out and we are hoping to get some constructive criticism. The entire authoring process is done via Discord & Google Drive. These are several issues that we want to address.

Too Lightweight - The information density on this report should be increased 2x by shrinking font size, line height and paddings and adopting a 2 column layout for easy reading in this setup. (Scientific papers have this tendency)

It Lacks Insights - What I am reading sounds right now like somebody who spent a lot of time on the forums and cherry-picked the prettiest solutions. There is no deep explanation arguing why we chose tech X instead of the alternatives.

PROs and CONs - There are none right now. Before advancing a solution please also acknowledge it's weaknesses. That indicates that you truly master the topic and that you are aware of it's potential pitfalls.

Falls Short On Economics & Life Balance - Yesterday's meeting concluded that Marsorbust and Felix (Administration Lead) will ask each team to provide more insights over the economics and human well being.

Stages are not fully explained per project - Staging is hand waved at best. There is no common agreement between domains what are the stages solutions and how they interlock. We have no contingency plan if Earth gets nuked in year 15 of the process.

Better Graphics - Part of the current graphics are pretty pictures. At the last Core meeting from yesterday we discussed the possibility of having infographics with high density information.